SLEEP OF JONAH

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

TOPIC: THE SLEEP OF JONAH

This will help you to know whether you are awake or not. The fact that somebody's eyes are open does not mean that he is not sleeping spiritually.

The sleep of Jonah:

Jonah 1:5-6 says, then the mariners were afraid,
and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SLEEP OF JONAH

It was an unrealistic sleep, a sleep of illusion. The storm was raging, men were in danger but Jonah did not realize it at all.

Likewise many people today think that they can put a cover over their head and all the bad things they are seeing around them would go away simply because they are sleeping. No, they will not go away. The sailor confronted Jonah, that meanest thou, O sleeper arise, call upon thy God. Can't you see what is happening around?

There are many people like Jonah, a lot of things are happening around them, yet they are sleeping. Many, today are roaming about sleeping unrealistically.
Their sin is raging like the hurricane and is as dark as the night and the danger is great but they want to believe that everything is going to be all right.

That is why Paul warns: awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and the light of Christ shall shine upon thee.

Unfortunately, many will die under this delusion because their eyes are covered, they think that the world will just go on like that and that nothing will happen. They believe that politicians will be politicians, military men will be military men, governors will be governors, etc. No, very soon, things will happen. If you are sleeping like Jonah, I pray that the Lord would deliver you, in Jesus name.

Some people have the call of God upon their lives and God has told them where to go but they have slept off like Jonah and have also decided to go another way. God told Jonah to go to Nineveh but he headed for Tarshish and slept off on the way. Eventually, he went from his bed of sleep into the mouth of a fish and was there for three days. He did three days dry fast in the belly of the fish because of unrealistic sleep. He was running away from God and consoled himself by sleeping.

LET US PRAY
FATHER IN JESUS NAME, I DELIVER MYSELF FROM EVERY SATANIC SLEEP THAT WANT TO DESTROY MY LIFE IN JESUS NAME.

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